Visiting Research Fellow
Miguel was a Principal Research Software Engineer in KDL, where he worked from 2015 until 2026. He currently collaborates with the Lab as a Visiting Fellow.
Miguel Vieira has worked in the digital humanities domain since 2006, when he took responsibility for the re-design of the XML development strategy at the then Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, though before that he was already developing software for libraries and archives.
He has expertise in designing, developing, and deploying web based projects, analysing and modelling humanities and unstructured data, natural language processing, machine learning, and systems administration.
He holds a degree in Engineering and Computer Sciences from the Universidade de Coimbra, and a BSc in Informatics and Systems Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal.
Projects
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Slavery in War
The Dickson Poon School of Law, War Studies, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, International Politics, University of Nottingham, King's College, London
2025–2030
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STEP-UP: a Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals
King's Digital Lab, KCL eResearch, King's College, London, Imperial College London, University College London
2024–2027
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Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's College, London
2025–2027
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Georgian Papers Programme
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary Humanities, William & Mary, Omohundro Institute, King's College, London, Royal Household
2018–2026
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CROSSREADS: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean
Oxford University
2020–2026
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AGE-C: Ageing and Gender in European Cinema
FAH Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Goethe-Universität, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Università degli Studi di Udine, King's College, London, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
2025–2026
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Building a Network for Research Software Engineers
e-Research, Humboldt University Berlin, King's College, London
2025
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King's Past
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2023–2025
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iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for AI in Libraries to support respectful management of Indigenous knowledges iREAL
King's Digital Lab, University of Technology Sydney, University of Glasgow, King's College, London, Digital Preservation Coalition
2024
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Living with Machines
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, The Alan Turing Institute, King's College, London, British Library, Queen Mary University
2023–2024
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Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy Radical Translations
FAH Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London, University of Milano-Bicocca
2019–2024
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Farm-level Interdisciplinary Approaches to Endemic Livestock Disease FIELD
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London, University of Lincoln
2018–2023
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Ego Media: Life Writing and Online Affordances EgoMedia
FAH Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2018–2023
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Digital Humanities Laboratory: Studying the Entanglement of Infrastructure and Technology in Knowledge Production
King's Digital Lab, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's College, London
2020–2023
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African Rock Art
The British Museum, Trust for African Rock Art
2018–2023
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REF 2021 impact data analysis
KCL Research Management & Innovation Directorate, King's Digital Lab
2022
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Digital Methods for Investigating Online Engagement with Coronavirus Digital Cultures of #covid19
2020–2022
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Shakespeare Holdings in the Royal Collection SHARC
FAH Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London, Birkbeck
2018–2022
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Language Acts and Worldmaking OWRI
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, FAH Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2016–2021
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Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
FAH Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of Leeds, King's College, London
2017–2021
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Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan MaDiH (مديح)
King's Digital Lab, Council for British Research in the Levant, Jordan Open Source Association, University of Oxford, Hashemite University
2019–2021
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Archetype
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2017–2021
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The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages TVOF
FAH Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, King's College, London, Cambridge University
2015–2021
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The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London, University of Edinburgh
2013–2020
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Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica IRCYR
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2020
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État Civil: French expatriates in Ottoman Egypt
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2019–2020
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Taming the Complexity of the Law TCL
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, The Dickson Poon School of Law, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's Digital Lab
2018
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A Publishing and Communication History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45 MOI
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London, King's College, London
2013–2017
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Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic DPRR
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's College, London
2013–2017
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Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea IOSPE
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2011–2017
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Prosopography of the Byzantine World PBW
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2000–2016
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Shakespeare400 SHAK400
FAH Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2016
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German Screen Studies Network GSSN
FAH Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2016
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Mapping the Medieval Countryside: The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem IPM
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, University of Winchester, King's College, London
2011–2014
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Henry III Fine Rolls
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's College, London
2008–2011
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The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music CHARM
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, FAH Department of Music, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Oxford University, University of Sheffield, Royal Holloway University London, King's College, London
2004–2009
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Language of Landscape Langscape
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2004–2008
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Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066/Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England PDE/PASE
University of Cambridge, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Narrative Atoms and Open Scholarship Experiences Nanotoms
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2018
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Data Portal Explorer
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2018